Jon Bryant

With almost twenty years’ experience as an international journalist and travel writer, it’s a pleasure to inspire the students at EDJ to speak and write in English. The language lessons focus on helping them become motivated, confident journalists, able to interview people in English, read the foreign press and research in another language. My role at EDJ is to assist students in writing, listening to and speaking in English, a language vital to their successful emergence into the world of journalism.  Whether they are competent at English before they come to the school matters little for they gain confidence and learn how to express themselves intelligently while here. The students are motivated, respectful, enthusiastic and benefit from the varied demands of the school’s dedicated teachers. There is so much English language in the French media nowadays and the students need to know how to use it properly. They create magazines, write photo-stories and reviews in English as well as give presentations, interviews and debates…. and revise a bit of grammar on the way.